CVE-2014-1520

MediumCVSS 6.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

maintenservice_installer.exe in the Maintenance Service Installer in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse DLL file into a temporary directory at an unspecified point in the update process.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 6.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-269

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/161696/Mozilla-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-Privilege-Escalation.htmlThird Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Mar/14Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-35.htmlVendor Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=961676Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 30, 2014
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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